Wednesday, March 26, 2014

TRIMET CLASSIC CHARACTER LARRY BOLTJES AKA "BIG BIRD" RETIRES!

Big bird is no stranger to controversy, he has been involved in several high profile disputes and was the inspector that ended up in the hospital after being attacked by a rider.HOLD ON HERE, I'VE READ THE COURT DOCUMENTS AND BRICKER LOST THIS CASE ON A TECHNICALITY!

The court finds Bricker’s failure to serve TriMet timely with
the Writ, and then to obtain a valid stay of the exclusion order,
was fatal to her petition for review. Because the exclusion order
has expired, there is nothing left for review. In addition, the
court finds Bricker cannot make, nor has she made, any “reasonable
showing” that she will be subjected to the same alleged illegality
again. Another exclusion on the same grounds is only likely to
occur if Bricker again makes what a TriMet inspector deems
“excessive or unnecessary noise . . . within any District Vehicle

Bricker appealed the suspension to Multnomah County Circuit Court, where the case bounced around before a judge recently determined its free-speech questions should be answered in federal court. The gray areas of TriMet's noise code is only part of why the public should be alarmed by confrontation, Paternoster said. TriMet, he said, needs to do a better job of training workers interacting with the public to have a thicker skin. "Jennie Bricker was just a bystander -- a passerby -- voicing her opinion," Paternoster said. "Ironically, she's punished for defending someone else's free-speech rights."Portland attorney says TriMet's questionable enforcement of noise rules violated free-speech rightBIG BIRD BLOWS HIS COOL!